Sen. John Fetterman says he may vote to confirm Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom President Trump chose to serve as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Dr. Oz was Fetterman’s political opponent during Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate race.
In a post on X, Fetterman said that as long as Dr. Oz will protect and preserve Medicare and Medicaid, he’s “voting for the dude.”
Here’s the post:
If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude. https://t.co/vededEgSuD
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) November 19, 2024
New York Post reported:
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said he would vote to confirm his former political opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator if Oz plans to protect the government programs.
“If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude,” Fetterman tweeted.
Fetterman defeated Oz, a Republican, in Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate race.
“Our politics are obviously different, and we do have a history, but I don’t have any bitterness. I don’t hold anything against him,” Fetterman said, according to CNN’s Manu Raju.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Oz as his pick to head the CMS, which